Submitted 10 months ago by PP_BOY_@lemmy.world to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
So this isn’t directly related to patientgaming but my hardware and personal tastes kind of filter me to playing games no newer than five years old.
I’m looking for some recommendations for games that can be completed within ten hours. I’ve realized recently that this is the sweet spot how much I enjoy playing a game before I get bored of it. I’m open to all types of games. Thanks in advance!
I managed to complete disco elysium in under 25hrs if your up for the challenge you can try and beat my record
Been a while since I’ve last played but I wanna say Earthbound.
Earthbound is a great game, but it’s quite a bit longer than 10 hours for the average first play through.
Yeah it’s more than double that, easily. You’ll spend an hour on fuzzy pickles alone.
Webbed. You play as a peacock spider (with lasers) trying to save your boyfriend. The bug designs are actually really cute.
I think Cocoon will fit in 10 hours. It did for me.
Hyper Light Drifter would be my personal recommendation. My playthrough lengths ranged from like six hours on my first run to like, an hour and a half when I decided to try and beat it quickly? But the game is really gorgeous, and a lot of fun to play
One of my favorites for sure. I hope they make another action RPG without roguelike elements.
Stray
Ori
Super Mario RPG can be wolluped in 20. If you go hard, I bet you can do it in 10.
Pretty fun and rather full of Easter eggs if you want to keep at it.
Most point and click adventures take about 6-10 hours in my experience. My favorites are the Monkey Island and Deponia games.
Resident Evil 7 & 8. Seven sets a new protagonist in a series reboot sort of way, so you might miss some Easter eggs and callbacks but playing the previous games AT ALL. Its meant to be an entry point in the series.
If you wanna have some nostalgia for 2000s era AOL chatrooms you ahould try Emily is Away Too
Hypnospace outlaw also keeps some of this similar nostalgia alive and now I want to go check out this one for even more of it
Digital - A Love Story and its not so close successor Hate Plus. These are digital novels. The former is a story set in a cozy 80s BBS network and the other in an archeological space ship retelling stories related to old Korea. Both touched me very much.
Ratchet and Clank (into the) nexus on ps3 is like a 5 hour game. It also nicely ties into the latest game if you’ve yet to play that
A bit old, but gold: Fate (the dungeon crawler one). It's a bit low-poly by today's standards, but it's so fun and has killer music, lots of spells and weapons, tons of interesting enemies and can be beaten in like 6 hours.
Klondique 😁.
Castlevania: SOTN once you know a couple of thing about grinding faster.
Inscryption
Obvious choice, but, Portal 1&2
Journey is one of my favourite short games.
SANABI
This game absolutely blew me away.
Dishonored 1 and 2.
Neon beats is a really short that can be finished in much under 10 hours. I love
Small saga
Cultic!
I think it will be longer eventually when more chapters get added, but right now it clocks in at about 6 hours I think. Well worth the money.
I finished Capcom’s Remember Me in just under 10 hours. I actually played through the whole thing in one sitting. It was a really fun game. I think about it a lot
Spec Ops: The Line is $6 on steam right now, it’s one of the few games I would call a masterpiece. I was able to finish it in two sittings, it’s the perfect length and it’s so damn good
Spec Ops: The Line was a surprise. The name sounds like a B level shooter. Powerful ending.
That’s its greatest asset, and its downfall. It looks, sounds, and plays like the most generic “Americans in the middle east fighting brown people” mid 2000s shooter, and it was entirely on purpose. I implore anyone reading this who’s at all into third person shooters to stop reading, pick up the game, and pretend you’re the target audience of a game called “Spec Ops” while you’re playing. It’s $6 on steam, it’s over a decade old, and it takes like 8 hours to beat.
And pay attention to the loading screen tips, especially in the latter half of the game.
Take a look at Contrast, a 5 hours narrative platforming game with pretty visuals an concept
Portal, Hyperbolica
I just played through the entirety of Storyteller in one sitting but had a riot of a time with a few friends. I think I spent about 2-3 hours finishing the campaign and will probably spend about another hour finishing the last of the achievements when I next take a crack at it.
jelloeater85@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What remains of Edith Finch, a very emotional and wonderful game, short and bitter sweet.
I’d go so far to even gift it to people. Outer Wilds make you feel small and huge at the same time.
Opus: The Day We Found Earth, another great short one.